Connie Bourassa-Shaw, the energetic director of the University of Washington’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, says that big companies are on campus all of the time trying to attract smart students. But Bourassa-Shaw says startups — lacking HR departments and lucrative recruiting efforts — don’t usually get the chance to go after top talent.
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A group of about 20 MBA students from the MIT Sloan School of Management are winding up a two day “Tech Trek” of Seattle in which they have visited Microsoft, Expedia, T-Mobile and other companies. As part of the tour, they have been wined and dined by corporate execs, introduced to new technologies and even treated to a special coffee tasting at the Starbucks headquarters.
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I don’t often write about Boeing and its impact on startups in the Seattle area. But there are certainly cases of technologies spinning out of the aerospace giant (MessageGate) or the corporate titan helping some startups get off the ground (The Insitu Group).
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Since list making is a popular activity at this time of year, I thought it would be good to come up with one of my own. But rather than bore you with my Christmas list — still in the early stages of development — I came up with the top technology stories of the year from Seattle’s startup, venture capital and entrepreneurial communities.
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U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee, whose district includes the Bothell headquarters of Icos Corp. , pleads with Eli Lilly and Co. Chief Executive Sidney Taurel in a letter today to keep some of the biotechnology company’s operations in the state.
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Len Peters, director of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, is leaving effective Jan. 1 to take on a new position at Battelle, the Columbus, Ohio-based company that operates five national labs on behalf of the federal government.
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